A Look At Amazon's Burgeoning Robot Army
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Currently, Amazon utilizes around 1,000 robot workers on its facility floors. ... In short, it looks like Google's not the only one building a robot army.

Everything Is Broken — The Message — Medium: "Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it. In the process, he figured out how to get total administration access over a network. He put it in a script, and ran it to see what would happen, then went to bed for about four hours. Next morning on the way to work he checked on it, and discovered he was now lord and master of about 50,000 computers. After nearly vomiting in fear he killed the whole thing and deleted all the files associated with it. In the end he said he threw the hard drive into a bonfire. I can’t tell you who he is because he doesn’t want to go to Federal prison... This story isn’t extraordinary at all. Spend much time in the hacker and security scene, you’ll hear stories like this and worse...." (read more at link above)U.S. Case Offers Glimpse Into China’s Hacker Army - NYTimes.com: "One man accused of being a hacker for the Chinese military, Wang Dong, better known as UglyGorilla, wrote in a social media profile that he did not “have much ambition” but wanted “to wander the world with a sword, an idiot.” Another, Sun Kailiang, also known as Jack Sun, grew up in wealthy Pei County in eastern China, the home of a peasant who founded the ancient Han dynasty and was idolized by Mao. They and three others were indicted by the United States Justice Department this week, charged with being part of a Chinese military unit that has hacked the computers of prominent American companies to steal commercial secrets, presumably for the benefit of Chinese companies...."Intel Vs. Qualcomm: Who Has The Better Roadmap For 2015? - Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) | Seeking Alpha: "Intel will gain market share as a result of aggressive pricing and performance gains. However, I don't think Intel's graphics and modem solution will match Qualcomm's in 2015."